There's a good description of the Allwinner A10 chip
and the newly announced A13 chip HERE

The A10 chip is the one that Barry Kauler is so excited about.

Quote:

A10 is around $7 for 5 numbers purchase and around $12-14 for smaller quantities.

In April 2012 Allwinner released the A13 strip down version of A10 which is same
but without SATA interface and HDMI, targeting purely the Tablet market.
The new chip is $5 if you by any chance decide to buy one million chips
from Allwinner and can be purchased for $10 in smaller quantities.]

http://www.shanzhaiben.com/60/n-6060.html
in chinese
Here are pictures of the first A10 processor notebook developed for
the consumer market. Apparently it does not have a hard drive!!
It looks like it was designed with the
cheapest PC components that are available in China.
10.1-inch screen
1024x600 512MB/4GB,
It runs Google Android 4.0 and supports HD video playback,
WiFi, and Ethernet connections.
The mini-laptop has an SD card slot, 3 USB ports, audio jacks,
and offers up to 5 hours of battery life.

The price is 500 yuan (about $80US) . This is presumably the
price that a big department store in the US could buy it.

A factory worker in China can make
1000 to 2000 yuan a month so this is very affordable.

.... Following this product is very popular
in the domestic low-end flat-panel A10 processor, based on the Cortex A8
architecture, clocked at 1.1GHz, 512M memory, built-in 4G memory,
using the 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 LCD screen. To run Android4.0.3 system,
the wealth of Android apps can be installed to support 2160P HD video
playback, can be relatively smooth to play online video, with the front
camera for video calls, the body is equipped with three USB ports,
you can easily connect a variety of outside set, RJ45 Ethernet port,
3.5mm audio input and output, a standard SD card slot, battery life
of 4-5 hours.:

The MK802 is slightly larger than a thumbdrive and has a microSD card slot to add to its built-in 4GB flash storage. Wi-Fi is also supported.
A Chinese-made computer that's slightly larger than a typical thumbdrive can now be purchased online for just $74.

According to reports from various industry sources, the Chinese
government has begun the process of picking a national computer chip
instruction set architecture (ISA). This ISA would have to be used for any
projects backed with government money China has a long history
with MIPS and Alpha.

There are at least five existing ISAs on the table for consideration —
MIPS, Alpha, ARM, Power, and the homegrown UPU

According to EE Times, there are some 34 ARM licensees in China, but at
$5 million for a single Cortex-A9 core license, it’s unlikely that ARM will be
China’s choice. The Power ISA is cheaper, but lacks the software
ecosystems that ARM and MIPS enjoy. ShenWei/Alpha is also a possibility,
but again it cannot compete with MIPS’ installed base.

APC is using a less powerful chip by VIA ---> WM8750
It uses Android 2.3
$49
It needs a special power adaptor.
One of the other amazing aspects of this system is that at load it only
consumes 13.5 watts of power and hardly anything at idle coming in at
just 4 watts. The system will ship with just a small 15 watt external power
supply.
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/via-launch-a-49-android-pc-20120522/

WonderMedia is a fabless SoC company headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.
[1] It is a subsidiarity of VIA Technologies.[2] It is notable for creating the
low cost processors used in a large number of Chinese Android devices.
The SoC designs are collectively called the WonderMedia PRIZM platform
and are based on the reference implementations provided by ARM.[3]

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